ptwobrussell

Visualizing Twitter Search Results with Protovis and/or Graphviz is this easy:

$ easy_install twitter # See https://github.com/sixohsix/twitter and http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools
$ git clone https://github.com/ptwobrussell/Mining-the-Social-Web.git
$ cd Mining-the-Social-Web/python_code
$ python introduction__retweet_visualization.py TeaParty # or whatever you want to search for

Your browser should pop open and display the results as a force directed graph, but also check your console for some useful output.

You can create an image file from the DOT language output with a command like the following:

zbrock

class CucumberExternalResqueWorker
  DEFAULT_STARTUP_TIMEOUT = 1.minute
  COUNTER_KEY = "cucumber:counter"

  class << self
    attr_accessor :pid, :startup_timeout

    def start
      # Call from a Cucumber support file so it is run on startup
      return unless Rails.env.cucumber?

defunkt

(This is the text of the keynote I gave at Startup Riot 2009. Will update when video becomes available.)

Hi everyone, I'm Chris Wanstrath, and I'm one of the co-founders of GitHub.

GitHub, if you haven't heard of it, has been described as "Facebook for developers." Which is great when talking about GitHub as a website, but not so great when describing GitHub as a business. In fact, I think we're the polar opposite of Facebook as a business: we're small, never took investment, and actually make money. Some have even called us successful.

Which I've always wondered about. Success is very vague, right? Probably even relative. How do you define it?

After thinking for a while I came up with two criteria. The first is profitability. We employ four people full time, one person part time, have thousands of paying customers, and are still growing. In fact, our rate of growth is increasing - which means January was our best month so far, and February is looking pretty damn good.